U+4E39 "丹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
丹
U+4E39 "丹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "cinnabar" or "red," often symbolizing sincerity, alchemy, or the color vermilion in East Asian cultures. Its form originally depicted a mineral extraction site, referring to cinnabar a red mineral used historically in traditional medicine, pigments, and Taoist alchemical practices for creating elixirs. In modern usage, this character appears in words related to red hues, pills or powders derived from cinnabar, and metaphorical expressions of loyalty or refinement, such as in the term "丹心" meaning "loyal heart."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E39 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 丹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 丹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB8 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E39 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e39 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4A6 |
| kCCCII | 213038 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4465 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4465 |
| kCangjie | BY |
| kCantonese | daan1 |
| kCihaiT | 44.201 |
| kCowles | 4048 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0162.220 |
| kDefinition | cinnabar (native HgS); vermilion (artificial HgS used as pigment) |
| kEACC | 213038 |
| kFanqie | 都寒 |
| kFenn | 570E |
| kFennIndex | 492.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7744.0 |
| kGB0 | 2104 |
| kGB1 | 2104 |
| kGSR | 0150a |
| kHangul | 단:0E 란:0N |
| kHanYu | 10044.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dān(31) dan(11) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10044.010:dān |
| kHKGlyph | 0024 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0162.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10044.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0080.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3524 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4A6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4330 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D5AD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5321 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4465 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4A39 |
| kJapanese | タン あか に |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:155 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKA NI |
| kJapaneseOn | TAN |
| kJis0 | 3516 |
| kKangXi | 0080.160 |
| kKorean | TAN |
| kLau | 461 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0030 |
| kMandarin | dān |
| kMatthews | 6026 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2943 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006360 MJ006360:E0102 MJ056826:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 00099 00099:E0102 |
| kNelson | 0163 |
| kPhonetic | 1295 1570 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2926+3.1.3 V+13914+1.1.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 3.3 |
| kSBGY | 121.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 6.16 3.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dān粵daan1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0030 |
| kTang | *dɑn dɑn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 064.070:dān |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đam |
| kXerox | 246:130 |
| kXHC1983 | 0210.010:dān |